Word: thurberism
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...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...
...Blatherskites!" snorted Humorist James Thurber, is the word for congressional Red-probers. "The end of American comedy is in sight, and the theater's gone to hell . . . Who can write where everybody's scared? ... I hate Communism . . . but I happen to be on one of those letterheads with Paul Robeson-and I'm not getting off ... because I'm not letting any Congressman scare me to death...
...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...
Neither his wife nor his son nor his employers knew what dreams whirled in the head of Maxime Formartin. Perhaps-unlike Thurber's elaborately dreaming Walter Mitty-Maxime himself did know. He was a lowly handyman, chauffeur and clerk for the firm of A. Freyman & Van Loo, Antwerp shippers. Long years of faithful service had brought him one occasional pleasure and privilege: going to the bank to draw some of the firm's money for import duties...
...Thurber Album. Back through the turns of time with James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio (TIME, June...